Posts Tagged «EFF»

Tim Cook gave another strongly-worded speech in favor of user privacy and the importance of strong encryption this week, but the Apple CEO has yet to speak to some of the underlying reasons for why users treat privacy so cavalierly.

The NSA has proposed a new security arrangement that would split a cryptographic key between multiple services. This front-door approach is meant to avoid the security perils of a back door — but it creates plenty of problems of its own.

The EFF and ESA have filed opposing claims with the Library of Congress over the future of multiplayer gaming support. The EFF wants players to have the right to support games after the online servers go dark. The ESA doesn’t.

Starting in 2015, everyone will be able to get their hands on a free, officially sanctioned SSL/TLS certificate so that HTTPS can finally be enabled everywhere. The new service — a certificate authority (CA) called Let’s Encrypt — is led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and the University of Michigan, with Cisco and Akamai joining as major launch partners. If you don’t know much about SSL, TLS, and HTTPS, trust me when I say that this is a very big deal.

Two separate developments in the ongoing battle between secrecy and disclosure into NSA activities. First, Yahoo will be allowed to disclose its own actions to protect users over the past six or seven years. Second, Russia is making an increasing about of noise about forcing US companies to adopt Russian data privacy rules.

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